Category: Tech
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Arc’teryx Neutro Visor review
Reviewing a very expensive hat, on a blog. Doesn’t get more outdorky. But if you’re not here for that exactly, best move along yesterday. The Neutro in action. I’ve always held the conviction that whomever names Arc’teryx products wanted to be Jean-Luc Picard. This is a 35 dollar visor. It is also an exceptionally functional…
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Packing for Glacier
A video unpacking, mid-trip, from my hike this past weekend. It did not rain. The only things I forgot were my spoon (whittled a stick) and to charge my camera battery. Full report soon. Ask questions below.
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Building a perfect trekking pole
A follow up to this post: I want to make the perfect pole for primarily one-pole hiking. Priorities (in order) are: durability, stiffness, weight, compactability. Needs to go up to 54 inches or so for use as a shelter pole and for potential use with a yet-to-be-made friend as a skiing pole. Needs to get…
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Black Diamond Distance poles review
Last flight of the Zpole. Trekking poles are a matter of, if not controversy, at least healthy debate amongst hikers. In the past 15 years they’ve gone from rare to ubiquitous, with a saturated market (not just Leki). Purists scoff that crutches are for cripples, the enlightened enjoy the added stability in rough terrain and…
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The practical and natural simplicity of singlespeeding
This post is for Ryan, who seems to be going through a cycling phase and first wrote about the distinction between practical and natural simplicity. To summarize, though you ought to read the aforementioned post, practical simplicity is about results, while natural simplicity is about process. They’re both concerned with experience but go about affecting…
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The rise of the (larger) vestpack
Outdoor retailer is upon us, and as usual a modest array of interesting things have come bubbling to the surface of the internet. One emerging trend I find more interesting than most is the rise of larger vestpacks. Years ago I had a first-gen Nathan HPL020, which was an impressively stable and accessible way to…
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The psychological taper
Enter the trip report contest, and win a rad pack! Seriously, my indifferent promotion of this has resulted in a very low number of entries thus far, so your odds are good. I get on a plane for Alaska, and the Wilderness Classic, in a little less than 30 hours. So I have a big…
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Pack mods and rain pants
12 months ago I owned no waterproof pants. The Classic last year made me a believer when it showed just how much heat can be lost through soaked legs. Today I have two sets of rain pants, each meant for a rather different use. Shown above and below are my fully homemade sil/epic pants. The…
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The 610 pack
All packs must have a name so I can keep them straight, and DX-40 was so cool and the race pack was too big for day trips and I can never have enough packs. 29 inches tall, 9 inches wide at the back, 6 at the front, and 8 (for the most part) deep along…
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Design and construction of the Black and White pack
Dimension-Polyant DX-40. It’s been over three years since I started making whole packs mostly from scratch, and I’ve learned an enormous amount through all the hiking, packrafting, skiing and especially combinations thereof I’ve done since. I don’t care to count all the exact iterations the various packs have gone through, but as of today it…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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